| Author | Title | Book Location(s) |
| Austen, Jane | Emma Young, beautiful Emma Woodhouse attempts to play matchmaker in her search for love for herself and her friends. |
Fiction
Austen Teen Austen |
| Anderson, M.T. | Burger Wuss Love gone wrong, fast food, and revenge all play a part in this funny story of relationships. |
Teen Anderson |
| Bauer, Joan | Thwonk A cupid doll comes to life and gives romantic advice. |
Teen Bauer |
| Blume, Judy | Forever Two high school seniors believe that their love will last forever. |
Teen Blume |
| Brashares, Ann | The Sisterhood
of the Traveling Pants Four best girlfriends spend the biggest summer of their lives enchanted by a magical pair of pants. |
Teen Brashares |
| Brontë, Charlotte | Jane Eyre Jane Eyre becomes a governess in Mr. Rochester's home of Thornfield and falls in love with him before she finds that he has a tragic secret. |
Fiction Brontë |
| Brontë, Emily | Wuthering Heights When Mr. Lockwood has an encounter with the spirit of Catherine Linton at the home of the unsociable Heathcliff, he hears the story of the tempestuous love affair between Catherine and Heathcliff. |
Fiction Brontë |
| Burns, Olive Ann | Cold Sassy
Tree Cold Sassy, Georgia, had never exactly been a whirlpool of excitement. If the preacher's wife's petticoat showed, the ladies would make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, things took a scandalous turn. That was the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, eloped with Miss Love Simpson-a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee! |
Fiction
Burns Teen Burns |
| Cormier, Robert | Tenderness A psychological thriller told from the viewpoints of a serial killer and a runaway girl who eventually falls in love with him. |
Teen Cormier |
| Dai, Sijie | Balzac and
the Little Chinese Seamstress During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, two boys are sent to the country for reeducation, where their lives take an unexpected turn when they meet the beautiful daughter of a local tailor and stumble upon a forbidden stash of Western literature. |
Fiction Dai |
| De Bernieres, Louis | Corelli's Mandolin
Corelli, an Italian army captain, falls in love with Pelagia Iannis on the island of Cephalonia after the Axis forces occupy the island in World War II. |
Fiction
DeBernieres Teen DeBernieres |
| Desai Hidier, Tanaju | Born Confused |
Teen Desai Hidier |
| Dessen, Sarah | This Lullaby Raised by a mother who's had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short, noncommittal relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock musician. |
Teen Dessen |
| Frank, Hillary | Better Than
Running at Night A freshman art student from Manhattan spends her first year away from home in New England. |
Fiction Frank |
| Fredericks, Mariah | The True Meaning
of Cleavage When Jess and Sari, best friends since seventh grade, begin their freshman year of high school and Sari becomes obsessed with a senior boy, Jess wonders if their friendship will survive. |
Teen Fredericks |
| Hardy, Thomas | Tess of the
D'Urbervilles The son in the family for which Tess Durbeyfield works assaults her, and she has a child who dies in infancy, but her husband is unforgiving. |
Fiction Hardy |
| Klause, Annette Curtis | Blood and Chocolate Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom. |
Teen Klause |
| Korman, Gordon | Son of the
Mob Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent. |
Teen Korman |
| Mitchell, Margaret | Gone With the
Wind Scarlett O'Hara faces and survives the Civil War and Reconstruction and marries Rhett Butler for his money because her true love has married someone else. |
Fiction
Mitchell Teen Mitchell |
| Niffenegger, Audrey | Time Traveler's
Wife Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel. Fiction. Niffenegger. Also in Teen. |
Fiction
Niffenegger Teen Niffenegger |
| Packer, Ann | Dive from
Clausen's Pier |
Fiction
Packer Teen Packer |
| Segal, Erich | Love Story A portrayal of the courtship and marriage of a wealthy Harvard hockey player and a brilliant Radcliffe music student. |
Fiction Segal |
| Weyr, Garret Freymann | My Heartbeat |
Teen Wehr |
| Wharton, Edith | Ethan Frome A New England farmer must choose between his duty to care for his invalid wife and his love for his cousin. |
Fiction
Wharton Teen Wharton |
| Whitlinger, Ellen | Hard Love |
Teen Wittlinger |
| Wolff, Virginia Euwer | True Believer Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to. |
Teen Wolff |
| Young, Cathy | One Hot
Second: Stories About Desire |
Teen S.C. One |
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